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Do you really believe in physics?

— Cormac McCarthy The Passenger (2022)

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I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

There's no such thing as life without bloodshed.

The world has created no living thing it does not intend to destroy.

Stella Marris (2022)

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

Blood Meridian (1985)

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